The Making of an Astrologer

Would you be interested to see the nativity of a born astrologer? Somebody for whom the impetus to astrology would have been astonishingly powerful, irresistible even? When you look at the chart then, notice all of these indicators:

Sun peregrinated in Virgo on one of the astrologer’s degrees. (11° 35′), an overwhelming need to shine in the arena of astrology.

Midheaven ruler is Mercury, peregrine, in dignity, a fearsome intellect and potential for genius.

Pluto is peregrine, and accidentally dignified, giving a keen and dominant insight into psychology and the underpinning paradigms of human life.

Saturn is peregrine, and in Leo and the 8th creates an enormous fixity, drive and determination to be top of the pile in the chosen field.

Neptune (this is getting silly now) is peregrine in Libra and the 10th house of vocation, thus spiritual matters and the concerns of relating to others are configured powerfully into the career.

Moon rising in prophetic, breezy Sagittarius expands the capacity for relating, creates a cheerful and optimistic ambience to soften some of the peregrine intensity; the Lord of the Geniture, Jupiter too is tightly conjunct Venus in dignity, creating those “film-star mannerisms”, a winning personality and a disarming and easy going good-nature.

All of the easy aspects in the astrology are to Uranus in the 7th house and Gemini, making the expression of ideas easy and intuitive and making profitable business collaborations possible with another Mercurial type. Uranus governs a significant element of the astrology of course, the power of sudden flashes of insight is his domain, and this empowers the astrologer’s gift of reading the glyph, as I like to call it.

Urania, the astrologer’s asteroid is exactly square to Chiron, the asteroid that like the chiromancer named in his honour, practises the casting of horoscopes with his hands, then Chiron trines to Uranus, having these three astrologic powers configured together is meaningful in the context of the great art.

Enticingly Lillith rises, giving the power to mesmerise and bewitch and most especially to express innately the divine feminine within; here is someone with personal power and feminine magnetism. Lillith trines Pluto too, thus the amplitude is ramped up considerably, possibly even uncomfortably on occasion.

The only fly in the ointment, in my view, is a real discomfort with empathic energies as a total lack of water certainly signifies. Of course, subjectively, a lack of emotions is never felt, a lack of water person will never recognise their discomfort with handling the emotions, but nevertheless, an innate ability to reach out emotionally, without words is the hallmark of a strong water type and this is an ability that cannot be present without any water in the astrology.

Finally, consider the general ambience of this astrology, Peregrine Sun in Virgo, Mercury too, in its sign, thus competence, efficiency and a truly penetrating mind expressed through a breezy, optimistic, outgoing (and everything is above the horizon too) emotional manner, a genius for relating, a dazzling sociability and just a little black magic for good measure. Truly, this is a person who has the world of astrology at their feet and a very well deserved reputation to boot.

It is of course, the nativity of Liz Greene, who has done more than probably any other individual to promote the study of psychological astrology since Dane Rudhyar. Interesting to note then that she conducts most of her seminars in tandem with Howard Sasportas (Uranus in Gemini on the 7th) and the emphasis of Pluto peregrine and accidentally dignified (psychology) with Sun peregrine at the Virgo astrologer’s degree, creates a fairly compelling association for the study of psychological astrology. Her book, “The Luminaries” is undoubtedly the best explorative work that deals with Sun and Moon in the astrology to date, and really, the world of astrology owes her an enormous debt.

I am just finishing Liz Greene’s “Neptune” – highly insightful and densely packed, but I did get a slight sense of distaste in the phrasing around some of her discussion, especially regarding neptune contacts with the sun and moon. Therefore your comment about
” a real discomfort with empathic energies as a total lack of water certainly signifies”, really struck home. I’d gotten that feeling here and there while reading the book.
Of course I have Cancer rising, with three planets in Scorpio, and neptune conj my sun, so I wondered if I was being “too sensitive”; I’m glad to have corroboration on those feelings.
Thanks again for your own densely packed, unusual articles.

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